Inglourious Basterds - glourious return of Tarantino

An excellent two hours trapped inside an indulgent two hours thirty.

But it's still only the second QT film I've actually liked. The other was Jackie Brown.
 
Having never seen a Tarantino film before and not really knowing anything about the film/plot I really did not know what to expect from it when I went to see it at the advance screenings a few weeks ago. My verdict - I loved it!!

I thought Waltz really stole the show as Hans Landa - his acting was amazing! I also loved how when the people should have spoken german, they did, and when they should have spoken french, they did! It really added to the whole atmosphere of the film. I didn't mind the long dialogue parts, the suspense was almost killing me in the beginning scene, it was really intense!!! I thought Brad Pitt was also really good, although I thought he would feature more but he did play his part very well - especially posing as the Italian! Very funny!

I actually did think that I would regret going to see this film, in fact in the foyer of the cinema my friend and I debated about whether to go and see it or just give it a miss!! I am SO glad that we went to see it! Will definately be buying the DVD.
 
Saw it last night and I loved it. Christoph Waltz (does he remind anyone else of an evil Rob Brydon?) and Melanie Laurent were outstanding.

Agree that Eli Roth was the weak link but I don't think it spoiled the film too much. And I thought the bit where they played the Bowie song was a bit jarring.

The opening 'chapter' is probably the best piece of cinema I've seen all year.
 
Watched this last night - loved it.

The 2 and half hours flew by, I usually get impatient with films this long. The opening scene and the scene in the basement were incredibly tense stuff.

I don't agree with the theory that Capt Landa recognised Shoshonna during the strudel scene. In the opener he never saw her face, she had his back to him as she ran out.
 
Congratulations, you've just identified what makes a Tarantino film. Can't help but wonder why you even went if you don't like long scenes composed entirely of dialogue.

Speaking of which, things do happen. DIALOGUE happens. Characters are developed, take interest in the moment and stop waiting for an artificial payoff.
 
Oh nonsense.

Dont get me wrong, I really like Jackie Brown, I like the scene, I love the song and I would rut Pam Grier until it dropped off. But greatest ever?.....erm, no.

Watch the opening scene to 'Touch of Evil'. Or Apocalypse Now. Blade Runner. Sunset Boulevard. City of God. Dont Look Now.
 
i loved it. i had no idea what it was gonna be like and have never seen a tarantino film before, but i thought it was brilliant. one of my favorites of the year, definitely
 
Far less action packed than I thought it would be, overall enjoyed it.

Not surprised Brad Pitt got about $9 million for it, he was hardly in it.
 
Besides, Mike Nichols got there first with the Graduate. Almost identical in fact...apart from the music.

What gets me about Tarantino is the way positive critics are quite happy to let his "homages", which to be honest are thinly veiled rip oRAB of earlier and better films by better directors, slide....but that is for another thread.
 
Probably my favourite film of last year (along with Avatar). Watched it about five time now and loved it every time. Can't say that about many films.

RegarRAB

Mark
 
I didn't say it was the greatest movie-music moment ever, I said it was - in my eyes - one of the greatest Tarantino music-movie moments ever.

I've seen the opening scenes to all those films, bar Touch of Evil (but I very much want to see it), and I agree, they're amazing movie-music moments.
 
Oh god, I know.

As a film-buff, you have no idea how many times I have doubled up with laughter or banged my head against the nearest blunt object when some 20-something work colleague who thinks they are a film buff tells me with a straight face that Tarantino is an 'original'.

If I had a fiver for every time for example I have had to point out that Reservoir Dogs isnt a original idea and is frankly a ripoff of a far superior Kubrick classic(which of course these 'film buRAB' have never heard of), I'd be posting this from my beach house in Barbados....
 
This sums it up for me. Every one of Tarantino's films are exactly the same as each other. Lots of rambling about nothingness and then a scene where somebody dies with guns or something grotesque over and over again.
 
This will went downhill at two points for me and then didn't recover.

The first point was when Christopher Waltz says "oh we both speak English, so let's speak" and they stop the subtitled talk and go into English. What rubbish!

Then Brad Pitt pops up doing that ridiculous talk about killing nazis and that's it.

Then they scalp a Nazi - utter rubbish this film. Pathetic. It was utterly fantasist in nature, gratuitously fantasist from a disturbed mind.
 
But maybe he'd seen a photo? He did go to hunt her family down, which would be difficult with no idea what they looked like.

I think he had an inkling who she was, he was watching carefully for a reaction when he ordered the milk.
 
not a fan of QT at all, i hate most of his previous works, thought they were so pretentious, and found the 'cool' dialogue so forced and cheesey.. i don't think Pulp Fiction has aged well at all. and Jackie Brown had to be the most forgettable non-event of a film ever.

But all changed with IB! i don't know what it is but every single scene has stuck with me months after seeing it. Absolutely brilliant and a thoroughly entertaining romp.
 
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